It’s Time to Ditch Your Yahoo Account

If the recent “state sponsored” Yahoo hack wasn’t enough motivation for users to stop using their services, the latest news about Yahoo should be. Joseph Menn, a reporter at Reuters, just revealed that Yahoo created a custom email wiretap service for the US government.

Last year, Yahoo complied with a classified government directive to create a software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails. What exactly they were searching for remains classified. However, we do know that the search was targeted towards a certain “set of characters,” according to Menn.